RAY BRADBURY
American author (1920)
Biography:
Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan (Illinois) on August 1920. His beginnigs as writer were quite humble, for he began writing his own stories on butcher paper. In 1938 he graduates from Los Angeles High School. That same year he begins publishing short-stories in magazines. In 1942, Bradbury wrote "The Lake", the story that reveals his distinctive writing style. Dark Carnival (1947) was his first short-story collection published.
But his reputation of science-fiction writer did not arrive until 1950, when The Martian Chronicles were published (in England the book appeared under the title of The Silver Locusts). Farenheit 451 was released in 1953, and it is set in a future society where writing and reading are forbidden. Farenheit 451 may be read in the line of A Brave New World, written in 1932 by Huxley, as pessimist visionary novels about future human societies.
Ray Bradbury has written many novels and short-stories and now-a-days he is still writing and giving lectures.
Ray Bradbury, author of illustrated works:
Avec un chat pour édredon, illustrated by Louise Reinoehl Max, Gallimard, 1998.
Pour les chiens, c'est tous les jours noël, illustrated by Louise Reinoehl Max, Gallimard, 1998.
Ray Bradbury on the Internet:
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